Pretty Books of the Day - 1963-64 Supermans

[burntboy]

in response to the wishes of some DC fans on the "nice run completed" thread, i decided to post a bunch of Superman covers from mid 1963 to mid 1964.

 

as is typical with my collection, these happen to be the best of the lot as i was winding down my collecting habit in late 1964. these are typical of all my DC's from that last year in the hobby.

 

and, in case you hadn't heard it before, these were all purchased originally by me at Sid's luncheonette in Orange NJ.

 

[goldust40]

Excellent stuff. You forget how great those early '60s Superman covers were - particularly like the Bizarro cover.

[Zonker]

Beautiful!

 

I love that period, with the great Curt Swan / George Klein artwork.

 

Are you missing the #164? Cause I remember that as the beginning of the 'reformed' Lex Luthor series, in which he becomes the hero on another world (ties in to the classic Superman 167 & 168 and then a couple of issues of Action Comics soon thereafter).

[Aces]

Wonderful high grade gems!

[Red Hook]

WOW! Lucky SEVEN!

[dudesim]

Yay great comic's

[ArAich]

Holy Krap BB.... ...Greggy's gonna have a heart attack when he sees those...

[Aman619]

very nice books. How come they dont have pizza stains on em like mine do? Or folds from being shoved into your back pocket??

[Rocketeer]

How the frick do you have your originals in such good shape?...didn't you read them like a normal kid?,...take them to the beach and camping?...use them as costers?...play comic book twister???....

[DoubleCovaBrotha]

How the frick do you have your originals in such good shape?...didn't you read them like a normal kid?,...take them to the beach and camping?...use them as costers?...play comic book twister???....

 

 

 

, comic book twister...

 

"Right hand Action #1, left leg Amazing Fantasy #15"

[burntboy]

How the frick do you have your originals in such good shape?...didn't you read them like a normal kid?,...take them to the beach and camping?...use them as costers?...play comic book twister???....

 

 

 

, comic book twister...

 

"Right hand Action #1, left leg Amazing Fantasy #15"

 

- that is a funny post!!!!!!

 

but as i said, these are the best of the best. most of my DC stuff from early 1963 and back starts to go down into the VF mode, and then we get into the F/VF for a year and so on. the pre 1962 stuff has the typical problems across the board.

 

the best part though is that i've got about 5-10 copies of most every DC title in this shape from that time period.

[Ron_Nasty]

Don't ever slab 'em!

 

Do you have any from 1961?

[Bronty]

"the best part though is that i've got about 5-10 copies of most every DC title in this shape from that time period. "

 

the early stuff or the later stuff?

[burntboy]

Beautiful!

 

I love that period, with the great Curt Swan / George Klein artwork.

 

Are you missing the #164? Cause I remember that as the beginning of the 'reformed' Lex Luthor series, in which he becomes the hero on another world (ties in to the classic Superman 167 & 168 and then a couple of issues of Action Comics soon thereafter).

 

thanks - i have about every book from 100-170. but in the 160-170 range, these are the best. although i think i have 2 or 3 others that have some printers creases on them (check out the one on Atlas' leg on the Bizarro cover), which aren't color breaking creases as much as original defects. the Atlas crease isn't noticible to the naked eye as there's no color loss. it looks like a normal crease due to the scanner's light reflecting off of the slightly raised ridge, that is the printer's crease.

if that's the case, i'll post #164 tomorrow. i think it had supes and luthor boxing on the cover??

[burntboy]

"the best part though is that i've got about 5-10 copies of most every DC title in this shape from that time period. "

 

the early stuff or the later stuff?

 

sorry if i wasn't clear - the best books are mostly (there are notable exceptions) in the mid 1963 thru 1964 timeframe.

[Zonker]

if that's the case, i'll post #164 tomorrow. i think it had supes and luthor boxing on the cover??

 

[Bronty]

Right, I understand that the best condition books are 63/64, but do you mean to say that your multiples are in the early time frame or the late time frame?

 

Either way, congrats

[burntboy]

Right, I understand that the best condition books are 63/64, but do you mean to say that your multiples are in the early time frame or the late time frame?

 

Either way, congrats

 

gotcha - by 5-10 copies, i meant DIFFERENT copies. i NEVER conciously bought multiples copies unless i was replacing one that i messed up somehow.

 

what i have are approx 5-10 different issues of almost every DC title between mid 1963 and late 1964 in HG. and just about every other title in 7.0 - 8.0 from 1962 on and then mostly 6.0's during 1960-62.

[ultimatevenom]

Nice books BB.

 

Got any beautiful bronze age DCs?

[burntboy]

Nice books BB.

 

Got any beautiful bronze age DCs?

 

i've got some pretty decent ones, but, of course, no original purchases..........